Attaching means for car ends.



W. T. VAN DORN. ATTAOHING MEANS FOR OAR ENDS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 24, 1913. v

" Patented Sept. 30,1913.

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WTTLEWEEEE W. T. VAN BORN. ATTAUHING MEANS FOR CAR ENDS.

APPLIOATIONIILED MAR. 24, 1913.

Patented Sept. 30, 1913.

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W. T. VAN DORN. ATTAGHING MEANS FOR GAR ENDS. APPLICATION IILED MAR. 24, 1913.

1,074,225, Patented Sept. 30,1913.

' 3 SHEETBSHBBT 3. IZ 5 I I tin-lane STATES IWITJLIAM T. van norm; or 'eHI'cAe'o, iLLiNois.

ATTA HING MEANS FOR can nuns.

To allwhomit may concern:

Be itknown that I, WILLIAM T. VAN DoRN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, inv the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attaching Means for CarEndstand I do herebydeclare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the, same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the numbers of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Heretofore a troublesome feature in connection with WOOdGD freight cars has been the breaking away ofthe ends thereof from the car frame, permitting a loss of the contents of the car. Such breaking, away or destruction of the carend is in most cases due to the constant buffing stresses to which the same are subjected in the transfer thereof from place to place. The side walls, top, and.bottom of a car are very seldom injured bv foreign objects coming intotheir path, while on the other hand, the car ends are often battered and even a partial destruction thereof is of serious consequence. Various metallic ends have been devised to replace the frail wooden ends of such cars, and inmost cases,"-although the same have been suflioi-ently strbn 1n themselves to withstand the inertia of the contents of the car when the train is brought. to a sudden stop, or suddenly'set in motion, such ends have been attached to theend members of a car'frame in a mannerinadequate to prevent .tearlng away of the ends from the frame when subjected to; the enormous stresses due to bufling.

[This invention relates to means for securing a car end to a car frame in a manner adapted to retain the ends thereon under the most severe conditions, and also serving I to reinforce the car frame as a whole. It is an object of this invention to provide.

tie rods for connecting the opposite car ends so that the same are directly connected together and the stress imposedan one end will be commuhieatea to the other and tr nsmitted to the ear-"fr me as a whole. as a compressive stress. .4

Specification of Letters Patent. Application file'd IiIar'eli 24, 1913. seriaim. 756,372.

It is also an object of this "invention to provi e a means for securing a metallic car end tothe intermediate members of a car frame.

It is also an'object'of this invention to Patented Sept. so, 1913.

provide attaching means for a car end wherein the truss rods of the car frame. serve to secure the ends thereon andv tie the same to- 'gethe'r. y

Itis also an object of this invention to provide means for attaching a car end to the corner posts of the car frame both transversely and longitudinally thereof with respect to the car frame.

It is also an object ofthis invent-ion to provide a car end capable ofvbeing attached to the dead block or end sill, or both of said members, of a car frame. I

It is also an object of this invention to provide tie rods extending the entire length of the car at the to of the car, and -serving to clamp the car en s on the respective ends thereof to the respective end plates of the 5 car frame, so that the stress imposed on one car end will be transmitted to the other car plurality, of points otherwise thanon the end members of said frame. I 7

It is finally an object of this lnve'ntlon to suitably reinforce the entire car structure by the attaching means for the car end. The invention (in illustrated in thedrawings, and hereinafter more fully described. a

Figure 1 is a central,

' In the drawings: v longitudinal, vertical sectiontaken through invention to a preferred form is an ordinarywooden box car equipped with ine'tall'ic' car ends attached by means embodyingithe principles of my invention. Fig. 218 a fragmentary "end elevation of the flange 14, and the corner freight box car indicated as a whole by the reference numeral 1, is provided with afloor 2, and side walls 3. A roof 4:, is supported upon the transverse carlines 5, intermediate the ends of the car frame, and the end of said roof is supported upon the end plate members 6. The roof structure is suitably supported upon a plurality of intermediate posts 7, and end posts or corner posts 8,

which are provided therebetween with sway bracing members 9, to reinforce the same.

The longitudinally extending sill members 10, afford a support for the floor 2, and form a part of the under framing of the car, and on the ends thereof, are secured end sills 11, which are tied together to reinforce said under framing by means of the truss rods 12 A metallic car end 13, is secured along its edges to the end members of the car frame,

Which comprise respectively the end plate 6,

end sill 11, and the corner or end posts 8, As more particularly shown in detail in Fig. 4, the side edges 14, of said car end13, are anged over to engage around the outer surface of the corner posts 8, on each side of the frame, and bolts 15, extend through said post, to firmly secure the car end flange thereon. Likewise bolts 16, extend through the front face of the metallic car end and through the corner posts, and through the end plate member 6, to pos tively retainthe car end'thereon. For the purpose of additional support, and in orderto relieve the end members 'of the car framing from the entire stress imposed upon the car end, longitudinal tie rods 17, extend throughthe corner posts to the outer side of the metallic car end, and on the interior of the car extend longitudinally for a portion of the length thereof and are then .se-

dished inwardly,

cured upon one of the intermediate posts 7. A pair of continuous longitudinal tie rods 18, of the car to the other, and are secured upon the outer faces of the metallic car ends to tie the same together and frame as a whole. Said car end members13, comprise an integral sheet\ of metal which is corrugated and said corrugations being continuous andextending substantially parallel to the top, sides'and bottomof the car, and afi'ording in appearance a bulls-eye.

As shown in Fig. 5, the lower edge of the brought to a sudden stop.

metallic car end- 13, is secured to the dead block 21, by means of the angle iron 19,

which is riveted to the margin of the car end and bolted to the dead block. As shown in Fig. 6, the car end is-provided with the integral out turned flange 20, which is bolted to the dead block 21, in the usual manner.

In the modification shown in Fig. 7, the lower edge of the ear end extends over the rear surface of the block 21, and is engaged thereon, and between the same and the end sill 1-1, by means of the truss rods 12, so that in this construction as well as that shown in Fig. 1, the car ends are connected or tied together at their lower edges by means of the truss rods of the car-frame.

The operation is as follows: Attaching the car end to the car frame by means of bolts 1 permits the endto be readilyremoved therefrom at any time for repair or replacement,

if so desired, as well as affording means for taking up upon the same 'at any point,

should i't-become sprung from the car body. In prior constructions, the car end has been mounted entirely upon the end members of the car frame, and these, as usually constructed, are of insuffic-ient strength to withstand the stresses imposed upon the car ends;

when the car is suddenly set in motion or distribute the stress throughout the car frame by means of the short tie rods 17, and the continuous tie rods.18, as well as the truss rods 12, of the car frame. Due to the fact that the car end is dished inwardly, any force exerted thereon from within the car, will tend to spread the edges thereof over the end members of'the car frame .rather than tear the edges awaygfrom the same. However, because of therigidity of attachment of the edges of the car end to the car frame, in event of accident, the end will be distorted before the edges thereof are torn In my lnvention I away from their attaching means, due to the corrugations in the surface of thecar end. Car ends so constructed will undergo a certain amount of deformation before becoming detached from the car frame. Due to the fact that the car end is also secured upon the car frame by means of, the longitudinal tie rods 18, and truss rods "12, any force exerted on the interior of the car end due to a sudden starting or stopping of the car, will cause the stress thereon to be transmitted to the opposite car end, and the force will then be communicated to the car frame as compression throughout its length, in-

stead of a tensile force applied directly on may be varied through a wide range without departing from the principles of this invention, and I therefore do not purpose limiting the patent granted otherwise than nece sitated by the prior art.

. I claim as my invention: '1. The combination with the end bers of a car frame, of a car end secured thereon, means tying the s'ameto intermediate members of the car frame, and inter'al continuous means atthe top of the car or tying the opposite car ends together.

2.'The combination with a car frameof car ends secured thereon, straight and parallel continuous tie rods extending the entire length of said car and secured on said car ends, and integral means on said car ends ermittinga continuous connection to be e ected between said opposite ends by means of the truss rods of the car frame.

3.'In a car .frame the combination with the corner posts thereof, of a metallic car end flanged therearound, andbolts secured alternately transversely and longitudinally,

tinuous tie rods extending the length of the top of the car and securing the opposite car ends one to another.

5. In means v,for attaching a metallic car end to a car frame, the combination of extended flanges on said car end, longitudinal and transverse bolts extending there-' through, and oneof said flanges adapting the truss rods of the 'car frame to extend therethrough to tie the opposite car ends together and to reinforce and strengthen the car frame. .6. Means for attaching a metallicv car end to a car body comprising means for transinitting the stress imposed on one car end directly to the other opposite car end.

7. The combination with an end sill and corner posts of a railway car, of a sheet metal end secured to said sill and posts, said end dished inwardly affording an out-. wardly concave surface.

8. The combination withthe car frame of a railway car, of a metal end structure,-

longitudinal and transverse means securing the same to the end members of said car frame, and means securing the same to the 'on the end sills by means of said truss rods,

mem-

tie rods connecting said metal end with the intermediate posts of the car frame, and

means attaching the edge of said ends transversely and longitudinally of the car through said corner posts. 1 10. The co "bination with the body of a railway car, of end structures consisting of an outwardly concaved concentrically corrugated sheet of metal, means attaching the same to the end members of said car frame, and means securing said end. structures together, and to intermediate members of said car body.

11. The combination with a car frame, of an outwardly dished metallic end, means attaching the same to the end members of said car frame, and tie rods connecting said end with the intermediate members of said car frame; and with the end on the car.

12. The combination of a car body and a metallic end therefor, of an extended flange on said metallic end extending over the rear surface of the end sill of the car, and a truss rod securing the same thereon and between the sill and the dead'block of the car to securely retain the metallic end upon the car, and tie rods extending longitudinally of the car at the'top thereof, and secured at each'of their ends to'the metallic car ends.

13. n1 car frame," the combination of extended flanges on said car ends, longitudinal and transverse bolts extending through said flanges, and the end members of said car .frame, and tie rods extending along the top of the car and parallel said longitudinal opposite similar means for attaching car ends to a.

bolts and connected to intermediate members of the car frame. v

14. In means for attaching car ends to a car frame, the combination with extended flanges on said car ends, with longitudinal and transverse bolts extending through said flanges and through the corner posts of said car frame, and a plurality of tie rods extending through said flanges and corner posts and secured respectively to the opposite car ends and to intermediate members of the car frame. i

- 15. The combination with the end mem bers of a car frame, of'a car end secured.

thereon, said end dished inwardly affording an outwardly concave surface, means tying the car ends to intermediate members of the car frame, and means at the top of the car.

for tying the opposite car ends together.

16. A car end comprising asheet of metal adapted to be secured to'n carframe at its margins and dished inwardly affording a convex surface on one side and a concave surface on the other thereof. o

17. The combination with a railway car frame, of end members comprising inwardly dished sheets of metal, and means attaching the same to the end elements of said car In testimony whereof I have hereunto frame. subscribed my name in the presence of two 18. A car end comprising an inwardly subscribing witnesses. dished concentrically corrugated sheet of WILLIAM T. VAN DORN. 5 metal. I Y Witnesses:

19. A car end comprising a unitary in- CHARLES W. HILLS, Jr., wardly dished sheet of metal. LEON M. REIBSTEIN. 

